Rebecca Horne, the Photo Editor at Discover Magazine, has a fascinating blog at Discover called Visual Science. Recently she posted a story about my latest petroglyph carving in Montana of the Chandra X-ray observatory.

More space petroglyphs are at Petroglyphist.com.

Besides Chandra in Montana there are two tractors (one with seeder drill), three pickups (pictographs), a water truck, an antelope (one was shot on the land while I was there), a double portrait of the original Czech homesteaders, and a cowboy with two cows.

John Jay is mounting an exhibition of about 60 war rugs from the Warrug.com collection. The show will open in early September and I will be giving a lecture, and a reception will be held, on September 16 in the galleries at the school. Update to follow.

Here is a story about US Government efforts to build a sustainable rug weaving industry in Afghanistan.

The rug in the photo was shown at Denison University in Ohio, and it will be on display at a show at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan in September and October. It is also the invitation post card image. This pattern turned into Soviet Exodus rugs which turned into WTC rugs and Tora Bora rugs.

Only in the west, only in the west!

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As mentioned in the New York Times, Kevin Sudeith will be spending a year on the road making petroglyphs (and impressions of petroglyphs) in the wildernesses of the Western United States. To follow his adventure please see Kevin’s travel blog or to see examples of his petroglyphs please visit petroglyphist.com.

Corey Kilgannon has a story in the New York Times about the temporary closure of Warrug.com’s showroom in LIC so that Kevin Sudeith can spend a year making petroglyphic rock carvings in the wildernesses in the western United States.

Mr. Sudeith, who is also an artist, is declaring an armistice in his war-rug business so he can travel out West for a year to create petroglyphs, or rock engravings. The 400 rugs in his dusty basement warehouse (a former speakeasy) on Vernon Boulevard will be put in refrigerated storage.

I’ve updated links to exhibitions to which warrug.com has loaned war rugs.

Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

NY Times Review of of Esso Gallery Show in NY

Miami University Art Museum Show, details of Curation and and Reviews.

Denison Musuem. Intro and examples

I have posted about 30 new war rugs. They range from really beautiful early war rugs from the 1980’s to some excellent contemporary war rugs.

Contemporary pictorial war rug showing American helicopters in Herat.

There are some new Obvious Weapons War Rugs

There are also a couple of Ten Tank style war rugs like these:

There are also some new examples of subtle weapons war rugs.

And some of the most interesting and timely new rugs are pictorial war rugs. From left to right: 2007 Sumac and pile war rug, Ghazni and Jam Minaret war rug with Coalition aircraft, and a modern city scene.

And the best of the bunch:

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